Where the Referendum's question regarded whether the construction of the political landscape should reduce to 99 MPs, thereby affecting the MMP system of New Zealand.

[5] The coalition-government sat in parliament until the 2002 General Election, as limited to the 3 year terms outlined in the New Zealand Constitution.

[7] The result of the 1999 general election led to three renewals of the Labour-Alliance Coalition, seeing Helen Clark to continue her leadership through a total of three terms.

Although, Jenny Shipley obtained her parliamentary seat and leadership through the loss of confidence vote and therefore resignation of Jim Bolger.

[8] Shipley's role as prime minister came to an end in the 1999 general election in which her opposition, Helen Clark commenced her 9-year-long party leadership.

This election result saw Jenny Shipley remain as opposition leader until 2001, retiring from New Zealand Parliament in 2002.

[1] This method was implemented in New Zealand due to the inability of the House of Representatives to decide on the issue of MP reduction in the parliament.

The question of the second Referendum was to introduce reform of the prisons systems through the introduction of hard labour and imposing minimum sentences on violent offences - albeit despite an overwhelming majority in favour, it too was unsuccessful in its implementation in New Zealand.

[6] The 1999 MP Reduction Referendum obtained some critics in its capacity to affect the New Zealand Parliamentary landscape and led to discussions of the benefits of implementing such reduction, specifically on the then-new MMP system of New Zealand.

The First Reading led to MPs addressing concerns on the implementation of the successful majority of the Referendum.

[4] Concerns regarded the reduction of MPs from 120 seats to 99, were said to potentially reduce the diversity within New Zealand Parliament, which has claimed to be a key reason for the implementation of a MMP system in 1996.

[1] The failure of the Amendment Bill in the second reading led to the MPs in New Zealand Parliament to remain at 120 members.